Le Fantastique Week-end du cinéma québécois this year concluded with the presentation of Ricardo Trogi’s film 1987, at the Imperial Cinema. Isabelle Gauvreau, the event’s director, is delighted with the success of the event, which saw a 25% increase in attendance at the screenings of its 10 programs, showcasing a total of 160 short films. [...]

August 6th saw the close of the 18th Edition of Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival, North America’s longest-running genre film festival. Returning to its home at Concordia University after the location’s massive 2013 renovations, the acclaimed festival benefited from having three theaters to screen their record 160+ films in. Among the numerous highlights that took [...]

Fantasia has always had a video presence at our fests, but this year we’ve finally put them all into one place on our very own You Tube channel! The videos, shot and edited by our own Éric S. Boisvert, offer interviews with the actors and filmmakers who come to Fantasia, along with recaps of the [...]

After Tuesday night’s sold-out screening of the Canadian premiere of THE WORLD’S END, presented by director Edgar Wright and actor Nick Frost, the Fantasia International Film Festival can confirm record attendance numbers this year, boasting more than 125,000 festival-goers for its 17th edition, surpassing last year’s record of 109,000 (a 15% increase). Over the course [...]

Back by popular demand, the Fantasia International Film Festival is once again offering a selection of films from the 2013 festival edition programming in Premium Video-On-Demand. The films are featured on the Fantasia Festival page on iTunes. Since 2011, Fantasia extends the festival experience by making films available on the platform that screened at the [...]

BASHA POSTER EXHIBIT Barbara ‘Basia’ Baranowska — best known in North America for her poster for Andrzej Zulawski’sPOSSESSION — is the unsung hero of Polish poster art. Whereas the likes of Jan Lenica developed a distinct, often instantly recognizable style, Barbara Baranowska was a chameleon (as reflected in her alternating use of ‘Basia’, ‘Basha’ and ‘Bacha’ [...]